Section C (10minutes, 10 points)
Direction: In the following passage, five sentences have been removed from the original text. They are
listed from A to F and put below the passage. Choose the most suitable sentence fro the list to fill in each of the blanks numbered 61 to 65. There is one sentence that does not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on your Answer Sheet I.
Virtual reality engineers are space makers, to a certain degree they create space for people to play around in. A space maker sets up a world for an audience to act directly within, and not just so the audience can imagine they are experiencing a reality, but so they can experience it directly. “The film maker says, ?Look, I?ll show you.?” The space maker says, “Here, I?ll help you discover.” 61 Are virtual reality systems going to serve as supplements to our lives, or will individuals so miserable in their daily existence find an obsessive refuge in a preferred cyberspace? What is going to be included, deleted, reformed, and revised? Will virtual reality systems be used as a means of breaking down cultural, racial, and gender barriers between individuals and thus nurture human values? During this century, responsive technologies are moving even closer to us, becoming the standard interface through which we gain much of our experience. 62 Instead of a global village, virtual reality may create a global city, the distinction being that the city contains enough people for groups to form affiliations, in which individuals from different cultures meet together in the same space of virtual reality. 63 A special camera, possibly consisting of many video cameras, would capture and transmit every view of the remote locations. Viewers would receive instant feedback as they turn their heads. Any number of people could be looking through the same camera system. Although the example described here will probably take many years to develop, its early evolution has been under way for some time, with the steady march of technology moving from accessing information toward providing experience. 64 Virtual Reality is now available in games and movies. An example of a virtual reality game is Escape From Castle Wolfenstein. In it, you are looking through the eyes of an escaped POW from a Nazi death camp. You must walk around in a maze of dungeons where you will eventually fight Hitler. One example of a virtual reality movie is Stephen King?s The Lawnmower Man. It is about a mentally retarded man that uses virtual reality as a means of overcoming his handicap and becoming smarter. He eventually becomes crazy from his quest for power and goes into a computer. From there he is able to control most of the world?s computers. This movie ends with us wondering if he will succeed in world domination. From all of this we have learned that virtual reality is already playing an important part in our world. 65
A. Reality is to trick the human senses, to help people believe and uphold an illusion. B. The ultimate result of living in a cybernetic world may create an artificial global city.
C. As well, it is probably still childish to imagine the adoption of virtual reality systems on a massive
scale because the starting price to own one costs about $300,000.
D. The city might be laid out according to a three dimensional environment that dictates the way
people living in different countries may come to communicate and understand other cultures.
E. Even though we are quickly becoming a product of the world of virtual reality, we must not lose
touch with the world of reality. For reality is the most important part of our lives. F. However, what will the space maker help us discover?
PAPER TWO
Writing (60 minutes, 30 points)
Section A (20 minutes, 10 points)
Directions: Read the following article and write a summary of about 100 words on your Answer Sheet
II. You should NOT copy the original sentences
The label of world?s oldest spaceman sat uncomfortably with John Glenn. He insisted that he was simply another astronaut in the service of science, conducting experiments aboard the shuttle Discovery. But last week, before returning to Earth, a relaxed Glenn began to embrace what is likely to be his mission?s most lasting legacy: a redefinition of our image of aging. The nation?s No. 1 role model for seniority made jokes and even dispensed a bit of advice about not accepting a dull life (don? t “live by
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the calendar”) in old age.
In a rapidly graying society, Americans are quick to celebrate heroes who defy stereotypes about aging: Glenn going up in space at 77, George Bush parachuting from an airplane at 72. We even made best-selling authors out of the Beardstown Ladies (average age: 70), until it was revealed that their investment returns were only mediocre. Why were we so eager to assume a bunch of novices could pick stocks better than a Wall Street pro? Because we want to believe that growing old is not as bad as we fear.
Many who work with the elderly are reconsidering this adulation of senior overachievers. “John Glenn has taken us from our fear of aging to a fear of not being John Glenn in old age,” says Martha Holstein of Chicago?s Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith and Ethics. It?s one thing, she says, to knock down stereotypes that mark the elderly as enfeebled or befuddled. But raising unrealistic standards of vigor isn?t any better. Historian Theodore Roszak notes that along with the celebration of Glenn have come paroxysms of press about 90-year-old marathon runners and other aged mega-athletes. These “supermen images,” says Roszak, author of America the Wise, a new book about how the swelling ranks of the elderly will benefit America, give rise to the dangerous notion that “seniors need to achieve at the level of 30- or 40-year-olds” to win respect.
Gerontologists talk about “productive aging,” the notion that one?s 60s and 70s constitute a new middle age as people live longer and healthier lives. Productive aging, with its roots in the social movements of the 1960s, began as a counter to prejudice against the elderly. But such well-intentioned efforts to bring new value to old age sometimes gloss over the fact that older hearts, lungs, ears, and eyes do start to wear out. Forty percent of Americans over age 65 have some chronic condition that limits such simple everyday activities as walking around the block or lifting a bag of groceries.
One leading proponent of productive aging wants to use what we know about how proper exercise and diet can forestall illness and physical decline to encourage Americans to maintain healthier lifestyles. John Rowe of Mount Sinai-New York University Medical Center, coauthor of the new book Successful Aging, advocates an incentive program in which Medicare would pay a larger share of medical costs for individuals who quit smoking, drink moderately, or lose weight. That, he says, would “enhance the well-being of older people” and also cut the bill for Medicare.
Others worry about creating ideals that the white, wealthy, and educated are most likely to live up to. The poor, minorities, and often women have the worst health in late life. A recent study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that the death rate among the poorest Americans is three times that of others of the same age—but not because they lead significantly less healthy lives. Rather, says Meredith Minkler of the University of California-Berkeley, poverty has “weathering” or cumulative effects. A woman who spends her life on her feet as a waitress or in some other physically demanding job—and then maybe also cares for her grandchildren—winds up in worse health than someone whose white-collar job lets her pay for membership in a health club.
In reality, old age means to live with both vigor and limits. Barbara Toomer made that clear last week as she joined protesters in Washington who handcuffed their wheelchairs together at the doors of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to demand funding to live in their own homes. “We hear how marvelous it is for John Glenn to be in such great shape” says the 69-year-old Utah activist with American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today, “but we?re down here fighting to get everybody out of nursing homes, which is where you?re likely to get placed when you get old.”
Section B (40 minutes, 20 points)
Direction: Write an essay of no less than 250 words on the topic given below. Use the proper space on
your Answer Sheet II.
Topic: List three important problems facing the world today. Discuss these problems and offer your
suggestions as to how to solve them.
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Reference key to Sample Test
NON-ENGLISH MAJOR DOCTORATE ENGLISH QUALIFYING
EXAMINATION (DET)
PAPER ONE
Part I Listening Comprehension
Section A
1—10 C D D A A B C C B D
Section B 11. country 12. inevitable 13. immigrants 14. common life. 15. community
16. human activity /humans. 17. get warmer. 18. influences
19. earth?s temperature 20. (the) oceans.
Section C Mini-talk One
21: Ten million tons of grain each year.
22: Any place they can get into—homes, shops, farm buildings and farm and home
storage areas.
23: By carrying fleas, mites and other organisms that cause sickness. Mini-talk Two
24: Four years of high school or less.
25: Any special requirements will be stated on the announcement of examination. 26: Retirement support, life insurance and health insurance. Mini-talk Three
27: Many of them are hits for a few weeks then they disappear.
28: A professional tries to make a living by working in art, while an amateur does all the
artistic work just for pleasure.
29: Popular art usually makes a lot of money, while high art often lacks funds. 30: To give money to make future performances possible.
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Part II Use of English and Reading Comprehension Section A
31. while 32. exceeded 33. ever 34. like 35. precede 36.once 37. separated 38. than 39. feasible 40. fortunately 41.overcome 42.continuous 43.instantaneously 44.transforming 45. as
Section B
46. B. 47. D. 48. C. 49. A. 50. B. 51. B. 52. C. 53. D. 54. A. 55. B. 56. D. 57. A. 58. C. 59. B. 60. D
Section C
61. F 62. B 63. D. 64 C. 65.E
PAPER TWO
Section A Summary
When retired astronaut John Glenn embarked on another space mission at the age of 77, he projected a new image of elderly people. The message was that growing old no longer means becoming ill, feeble and useless. Some social scientists are now talking about a “new middle age” for those in their sixties and seventies, as people are now living longer and healthier lives. But the concern is that the Glenn image sets unrealistic standard for most elderly people, making them lose social respect if they cannot live up to it. (93 words)
Script For Listening Comprehension
Sample Test
NON-ENGLISH MAJOR DOCTORATE ENGLISH QUALIFYING EXAMINATION (DET)
PAPER ONE
Part I Listening Comprehension (35 minutes, 30 points)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a
question will be asked about what is said. Each conversation and the question will be spoken only once. When you hear the question, read the four choices of the answer given and choose the best one by marking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on your Answer Sheet I.
1. W: Hey, don?t forget to mail the letter by air mail for me on your way home.
M: Sure, I?ll do that, but I?ll pick up some groceries first. Q: What will the man probably do first? (pause 00’15”)
2 W: Dennis called to say he?d come to the picnic.
M: Changed his mind after all, did he?
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